em tS lees TH MYSTERY EXPLAINED EVEN GREATER MYSTERY WAS THE EXPLANATION, An Indian Magician Used a Force Unknown to Those Who ies Him, all of ae “will deny ope there is a Every person of inte! telligence is perfectly well aware that there are instances in every life thataare so mates so subtle, we find it Sa aha not quite impossible, to count for them. The wisest of us te varius terms to slut over such Telepathy, physiology, suggestion, malicious anima} netism, and so on. No doubt there mental m. - tou the following incidént has not been founded on fact, It is fact in every particular A number of years ago a promi- nent citizen o: ‘as so un- fortunate as to lose his wife. There daughter, should inherit her Snansercat ring, a olitaire diamon ie ring was placed in ri keep- ing of an aunt, in whose charge. the children were to be trained until of oes sine sks He time the back Sy now a! was to go to a well- known female neal fey know- ing there was such a ring palongiag to her asked permission to wear it. The father refused her Rance: say- ing she was too young a girl to wear such a ring, informing her that ee ner ataaation she could come into its-possessio: th e ring raunahne remained se- bu ffs and scorn pretty much place, known only to/{ young persons. of the party wished commence: thei: to ec cir experiences at on @ young | man of the party in- quired at the office of the hotel what seh al be going on in tho city of interest to a party of young Ameri- A number of Eh oak pes cian or somethin, He might interest you. He a pears to be an East Indian, seems to. know anything “Bull, © has London he is bringing to he party found the large hall eat filled. There ne sories of mystery or the weird about the stage. With the exerted of a simple, reading stand and a table it was ‘perfectly plain. 6 sole occupant of the stage was a young man, evidently Oriental in pee but dressed in immaculate evening otheg: His English was excellent, but with a soft foreign accel He perform certain tricks, as we would call them, that were truly mongertul, and of a most eerie character, Then, stepping aie to the foot lights, he said, in ef custom, I will paras ae closing hour of the entertatnment in re- been in doubt, and desire to ioe the truth.’ He then Heaaee various events the lives of different Persons, some of a ot a truly exciting na- mames were given, bu Hs the be Pepa on Pees Sout tena not fail to see that his strange stor- ve hit home. Not knowi ine ie of hose present, this did not greatly interest the little party of car + ae But the climax came ib last, and Eee literally ne up Gnd listened i ords were pro! Sat GWevhave present in the hall a society well _ wrought up over the, in, 10 acces-"| W ‘onder as these is: many will Hine ae incident never oo- red. tion of the mystery. And the mys- tery of it all does not lessen with ere nam — shen ‘the clerk it “mind reading?’ There Bea: “By tho way, just at present | is no particular reason ippose. there is at Clarendon Hall a magi-| that hs mind of the one most con- suspected or taenboned 3 in her hear- ig. An , mental suggestion or telepathy must ibe eliminate No doubt that with the rapid ad- c at some future day there will he nothing unexplained, nothing to sur) prise and astonish us But to-day the manner in hist the solution of its | as known is as great a mystery as HAS KING EDWARD AND At A PENNY. First One He r Handled—Royal Portraits on Coins, Without taking into bg toe chs fellow monarchs there are aaee of England, but it is doubtful any one of them unfamiliar with even the eee sige in_his national currency. oe lets Ki ward aed h | occasion that he. had meyer acnally i held a penny B ee ar its way. Some one asked the ie his opinion as to the likeness ae tise on the cop- per coin of the realm. then replied that he had seen his and silver, but had never actually handl ions | One was then produced for his in- from all Spa of the hall, one ne sould spection at he thought the-likeness was flattering. As a matter of fact, a good like- ness of neither King, Edward nor of King George is found on a penny. t was sihetvise raat ie bronze coinage of Queen Victor: montoren Wis ¢ ‘executed AG Feet en Victoria which the people of Nice have erected in memory of her found a late Victorian penny very useful as a model when he was re- producing her features, who have seen the statue, including members o! mily, pronounce patbereuceeulen ak aaae Chief characters in a remarkable murder trial in Old London. artes Henry Seddon, an insurance superintendent, convicted pf murdering a woman policy-holder Before Mr. Justice Buea pronounced sentence Seddon who was aca of complicity in the m istering arsenic to her. Beyeric sign, The woman Justice Bucknill— in the the judge in the ‘al ri fa death, he said: We b thes to one ipeneneiioed, and that makes my nae all the more painful to me.’ FREEMASONRY AND JUSTICE. aes ure is ase—is we wn in his judicial The man at the window is Frederick wealthier men in the world than the |&° se | tion given him by to the hospital, whero the docto: decided again the abi nalagnogla that he had no rabies, an fiat his | & e Haat m8. word of the doctors, and speedily recovered without treatment, AFTER EIGHTHEEN MONTHS. A somewhat similar case was r ported in ‘the British Hetesl sone aK the wound hea! mo! and began symptoms sf rabies; ter, mily discussed the probability of “the disease having seized The, native officer in alana aecked him up, and when he opened the guard-room next morn- He the Sepoy had all the symptoms. sight of waters When he got hom x snapped viciously and frothed at hie with a pillow as a suitablé ob- ject for him to chew. wi t the sufferer by us chance ever snapped at his ow: hands when raising the pillow to his mouth. — Eventi the man was earet by a powder supplied by a fe ive doctor sai cured other cases of iedeonkobias SELF-HYPNOTISM. In sepuesing this case, Dr. Wil- liams says it cl early a case of hysteria, pe was sufficiently proved y the Sent ’s claim that the old und pained him. though auitiaten Le uate before. The biting and snapping were en- couraged by the stil so accommo- datingly placed before him. The fear of water was another psycholo- gical performance. He feared wa. SS because he believed victims of Modraphobis: feared water, and be- se he believed he was suffering ae the disease. r © Was ex- plained not by the aauise of the po- edical man, but by his welied in ek claim that ee practitioner could cure the dis- more remarkable case came under Dr. Williams’ own 423 n gave the judge the sentencing Seddon ®<oure in its hidingeplace. In all the Se Rested cay a trip al ng lady, not faving for- ‘gotten Use ring, suggested that as ‘they were now going to. urbe she should be allowed to wi it. The father was quite nied and said he would take it to his jeweller, have x cleaned and, if desirable, have it laced in a more modern setting. Pithe aunt brought the ring, and apralics exami jas it, and then ee “Of\course, Mr. B., we will ‘you wish, but really the ting is not worth expending any 1 “Not, worth axvennine any money on!” exclaimed Mr. B. hy, Mr. K., twenty odd years an i E por: sam of resetting. I don’t understand i how a you Seale the Grane: stance Mr. e examined his books for the year and time named, and then said: ‘‘You are, quite right. Mr. B. You did purchase this ring from m ay to- day it is paste, worth 75 cents ir Bl. “Again 1 fail to understand,” Ce Mr. B. it is simple > was tee eply, ‘“‘some. one procured the ung ratio the gen- ‘uine stone and h e false pene set in its place. It a ie a ney trick, but has been done many tinea! On learning the facts, the daugh- ter was greatly disturbed mentally loss of her feat. engage- ment ring. She brooded over it ‘deeply, and she could not free her mind of the affair. She was assured it should be made good, but still grieved over it as she started on her journey to eee torthis time there ystery in the ca ease. Just a eon theft and sub- ‘stitution, Mr. B. and his party landed in Liverpool, immediately taking train _ for London, arriving in that city in ple season for dinner at their ho- tel, ihe Langham. It as Sete Sas vhen they arrived, but th eat is not Pah ily oe ‘Il is, greatly troubled and exer- sed in mind over the Lphendt Ge oe of a stone from a ring left t Oar ceiber ying caatan cohen wis was a little child, “The, ring was placed in a + BIDBOR edly safe place, an t place Stim ehrone penton only: thevannt .. The years passed SIRE RAG Aacivoe at a suit- able age to come in .ssion o} Tt was taken fron its se- een purchased many years before. “On examination he pronounced the stone not. a worthless fatiatiok: The father and friends of this young lady could frame, no solution to this siete “Tt is my pleas sure and m: uty to give the young lady the eraree mavieneden at this time. About twelve years ago there was a case of severe) iliness 3 in her father’s fam- nurse rel known to the family, and believed to be in every respect HOFoughp trustworthy, was secure “This nurse remained in the fam- ily for many weeks. One day she eame across the ring in its hiding- eI place. She took it, but at eve i felt she could not give | up the beautiful toy. In a week’ time she had grown to believe and consider it ag really her own. She! removed the diamond and then had a paste'stone plaeed in the setting, and ewan the ring to its hiding: | A “the muse is dea. The stone has passed through se hands in a new setting, and is beyond recov- ery. This is the true solution of the eid with thee faots to have the B ww did this young eet know thes things? The affair h: to be a diamond, but. are 2) of See and to stimulate his coe SYMPTOMS OF HYDROPHOBIA THE FEAR OF DISEASE BREEDS PSEUDO RABIES. Develops Signs That Might be Mis- taken for the Disease Itself. : Whether a dog's bite will produce rabies in a human being is a ques- tion that the medical authorities are mn view for the gen- | hydrophobia, and to develop symp- (toms that any but an expert might easily mistake fot evidence of the | disease itself. The New York Medi- meee with the f . Williams, of Washington, foreign corresponding member of the Paris Neurological Soci FEAR AND ALCOHOL. Oné case came to light at the Ho- tel Dieu, in e had imbib: ied cons‘derable q tes of Sass ne Moraine ots threats whicl ever, been mentioned outside. the pro hey wer utterly | unknown to anyone in the city. spmpion of the e the correctness of his a8 unable to do, and the effort ended in convulsions, Sa frothing at the mouth and other dis- © tressing symptoms. He was taken 2 5 s & | to imagine that he is suffering from| 8¢ elt a stran; ie sensation in his rm observation, for it shows how a vic- tim may be forced to develop symp- toms of a disease he does not pos- sess by the foolish alarm of a third person, The patient was a boy of 12 who had been bitten by a dog, treated for the wound and di charged as cu: is mother had pre aotioa MEI chee eOGUT He be complete une the dog inflicting the bite were ‘oyed, and as the Sie ava es ONE ati came, convinced that her son would be likely to develop the disease. DRIVEN INSANE BY FEAR. Sure enough in two week had a convulsion. . but the mother insisted that this treatment hi merely “driven the disease, into his system.’’ Later on the mes ran about on all fours, frothed at the mouth, showed horro: of water, and developed every other symptom that his mother’s foolish talk had led him to expect. Even- tually he became completely in- sane, and was confined in an asy- jum. e was no more the victim of rabies than ler of this article. ply driven mad by fear communi- eated to him by his mother. Medi- eal men called on to cauterize dog bite, might yall take the oppor- tunity to dispel from the minds of their patient and his family the de- peor that * set of rabies are cer- ain to show fear or terror at the Halt of water. This old supersti- tion is the cause of much more suf- fering than the bites themselves, and probably responsible for more cases of rabies than all the dogs in the country. He was sim- H. M.’S SERGEAN a FOOTMAN. See mee An Important yal Official. The Senn Footman at Buck- pendent es spete orders only from the Master of the Household, says London A Acaeaele the Sgpennies: entrance to the Pal- ace, where he shares a waiting-room with the Pater stewar one o’clock half the staff of footmen came o 1, footme: ae they zat report dose soe ee to the Sergea: The Serarant Footman tue to look after the er. left’ ae ee rhe 1e ig servanis—and settle precisely the hours at which ae will be in attendance on their to ae their place during these ‘Ab aneenian Palace the ele tric bells in any of the Royal eee oe fright plus the alcohol’ explain- | Switchb: dan soldier was bitten by a dog, but i Ki bell it aie ring the bell in Room His mother provided | § “| bly have to be switched on eal -{seen himself for ten is the most robust | § tors’ rooms can he directly con- curr it did. There are at rabies diagnosis nected with 3g least | Free Saati of undoubted}on the ground lisease | rooms, This ane . eal veracity living who were a the} would not so soe lily manifest] what is called a transfer switch- party that night and heard the solu-|itself. The patient was assured board, which is Siaeed in the Ser- geant Footman’s office. -On the Nowy Bates the fcatearsy ae to Room No. 4, in the vistors suites of rooms for a ie ly Ns man ap- parently forgot all about it for 18 fo. rooms on Eee te ths, Then one day he felt ill,!that when aiser touched his 20. The Sergeant Footman and one of his assistants always travel with the King. The sore occupies a com- pertaa Oh next to the Royal rae and acts attendan it to te Maj ‘ing the journey. ae duties the Sergeant has to see that Puckiaguasd Palace is kept properly The électric tight in all the corri- dors at Buckingham Palace must be ing to the time of year; but in dull, jessy weather the light may BB rly in the morning, and the Sergeant. has to take, care to see that this is done if necessary. feet of the indoor footmen are at. Buckingham Palace vis in residence ight. The Ser- cant Footman himself goes off duty usually ae midnight. ‘or night duty are changed e wee! every —_—_t__. CAN NOT LOOK AT OWN FACE. English Prisoners 3 Not Allowed to nm Features. The ae eae and murder- er who has been fonts -six years in jail has come bac! w world, Van Winkle or one of the One been in confinement for nearly half a century. It was the motor and the bicycle that horrified the pigeaa bandit. An Englis! after te: Renihed by the ‘‘shape of the women.’? But the ordinary convict al release is most startled at the look of his own face in the glass, Ke our ingleek jails denies the prisoner of anything that reflects his face and the man who has not years 0} orous confinement scare imself in the Chiesi icle. —_—. AWFUL TRAGEDY. Fact of Killing One. Fifteen persons were found mur- dered in a farmhouse near Flores- chta, ily, and a number of labor- ers living in the house. hey had apparently all been killed with a hatchet during their or at the sight sleep, any information, a so-called police hound was sent for fro Odessa. ‘The animal. which is a cross between a do; picked up the scent at once from the farm door, and led the who pt ee ci e having been dismissed. He s then killed all the others house for fear that might have seen him enter ea RAINFALL AND CONSUMPTION A study of the influence of rain- Dr. William Gordon, physician to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospi- tal, England. After ees sev- eral Devonshire parishes according to their exposure to rainy winds, which parishes the deaths fron Sona nD HED during a series oF inly occurred. fonind that the: death-rate in the rain-bearing serious matter than altitude, char- eee of soil, or even the amount of OZONIZED WA a The water- “supply burg is eated rite ozone Ue * remove nearly all plant has a capacity of 11,000,000 gallons aday. From the Neva the water is pumped into a series of eight set- By way of 38 rapid filters Srek Soren ground fiintthe water en passes into einulsifiers, or pumps that work on the injector principle, in which the ozone is add- e emulsifiers the mix- ee into a series of five steri- lizing towers, and thence to the storage Wee ate purification takes place par in the emulsifiers and partly in ae fang towers. he ozonizing papery corisists of 128 as an alske ozonizers, and requires an electric current of 7, process costs about 18 volts. cents for each 1,000 gallons. | know not what evil The. footmen | Nova glass.—London | spy Fifteen People Were Killed to Hide is ™ | Wolfe’s Highlanders. h THE SCOTCHMAN IN CANAD GLENGARRY MACDONELLS OF THE JACOBITE CLAN. An Interesting Sketch by the Bril-. liant Writer, Andrew Lang. Though I have written, under I ar, a mam moth History of Scotland, like others who have attempted the sone adventure I never cast a sites the world-history of the Rot, ures Andrew ane 4 in the London Morning Post. In Europe he himself prominent, notorious, We. Seeasianelly wealt! the of fortune or a finwhcier He always useful, tho: teh far from chet ing popular, ‘when he fought under the standard of France; and the ‘i military name of Scotland after Bruce’s is probably that of the Hon. James Keith, a Jacobite exile and a Field-Marshal of the Marshal Macdonald, a son of one MacEachern, who Prince Charlie in his wanderings, and in finance all the world has heard of Law of Lauriston, while a Lauris- ee was a general under Napoleon but very useful men. Alexander began the colonies of Brunswick m by selling baronet- cies to adventurous ase who invested spun ently a8 in aa he pale Acadia, sent eighteen ie to protect French rights, but avid Kirke, French on the m ther’s side, captured these vessels and forced Champlain, whose Tray- render at Quebec pre- sently sold the new conquests hack to the French, and the Scots either came home or lived peaceably with the French settlers from Normandy. refuge of ate Highlanders who left home w. new landlordism took the Hees of the old organiz- ation of chief and clan, destroyed after Onlloden ss PICKLE, By 17 had taken English service raised | * regiments from their clans to fight | he F A THE SPY. was _ lucrati dane did aise “Hosa hie of 1 the Macdonells of Glen . These heir offe seesbed; but the (older than the ’Forty Five, and not a clan Re elie a pa Simon Lo- yat’s Fr: glory under Wolfe, aie at Culloden, had ‘dealt anh a heavy blow at the Stewarts rons, and “‘it was the pier Highlanders who scaled the ib and showed the way to vic- For example, Chevalier Johnstone, who fought for Prince Charles at Cul- his he makes Wolfe an Montcalm meet in Paradise, an criticize with great courtesy Any tactics of a campaign which to both of them proved fatal. garry, to the chagrin of his father, ed under v8 e} at Culloden migh ada, some some paesienys some Spanish, some English servi LOVAT’S “OFFICERS AND MEN, Many of Lovat’s officers and men, after the peace of 1763, settled in Charles, though invited so to do, did not set up his standard on the other side of the Atlantic and take part in a triangular duel, Jacobite, Georgian, Republican. Sir Jame: Macintosh, I eyed saw the let- n America, the (whose Beene used to prefer North Carolina), Argyle, Invernessshire, and Dae Macdonells. Chisholms, Grants, Camerons and MacIntyres, ° ie Americans Hanover’ America they were of his party. MACDONELLS OF GLENGARRY. ‘he Glengarry Macdo: mee: the strongest of the Jacobite clans, ae not stayet mi ~ Ruadh and his successor, and a ey settled the county of Glengaery in Ontario. They ‘drow lots for the Be ” of Reon and Morte: ee 1785, 500 of the noydart came to favs itheir new territories, under tl Rev. Alexander Macdonell} of 3 a pide qT ders of the No; Great Frederick. Napoleon has his | ™ cumstances tremely popular, grant to ieee dropping his “| Carelessness of alneies 38-1760 Highland chiefs who | PP Tecueiian dangers *° |touch them heedlessly, ecbig lactic anwar house oiling a dyn. with the copper plate or thedynamo, through which the cur- ie Hiahly fetes vr copper minimum, bu e i death Arnon even the cis care- ful opera the | tions in London ce | able circumstance: when at home, when in; ™! Scotus or Scothouse, the eldest eee pane Be Mie arry. The their hy sate fallen aa at Ouilgden: In 1831, in the Western Glengarry, were reck- oned 3,228.of Clan Donald, of Mi & B id s 3 5 a 2g eo Le} must have been MacUlrigs, who left jalloway at an unknown fet chal for Yeasons unknown, ane ta a therhood with Mac oe ape chief, by these aaerta arquess of Ailsa, All ‘tho oiee fighting clans wére well re- presented. The ancestors of tho men of 1851 distinguished them- selves against the Americans in the war of 1812, while Glengarry ‘as the man who, at newspaper in Quebec, but the foun- rth-West Company were almost all Highlanders, Later alae mat them ex- A Chinese emi- in the Moscow campaign. Mr. Gib-;name of Ah Wang, called himself Bae in his ‘Scots in Canada,” tells| Alexander Maelar ray, English us’ of Caledonians not so eminent, | migrants. to Canada may take similar measures. ARES von PERILS OF POWER PLATS DANGERS OF ELECTRIC GEN- ERATING STATIONS, Operatives In Touching Live Wires Means Instant Death, A big disaster involving A ey loss of life rarely or never n electric generating nition yet re annual death-roll among opera- eavy—heavier, on an average, per- haps, than it is in any other indus- workers in a big electric gen- s, the big, high sure cables that. convey the cur- nt to the switches, in the switches the most. terrible for operatives who may A London, England, operative in some ittle time ago was Soa g an iron lads of the en- we ae y i he lad- a, aH ole nee abe ¢! gine-re fobat whentehe Hep of the la came into contact with a cable over his head. The cable was at the to the earth, killing him instantly. FIFTEEN THOUSAND VOLTS! Another operative was engaged in amo from which a tre- The oilea magne! cables. teel handrail the dynamo, wet’ a complete ¢ircuit aia te cP and the earth, mie the result that a current of some 15, volts passed through his body, and Young Loch-| jy a fraction a second he was aie rocuted, peri power sta~ nals and notices for the guidance chikaienere ada every precaution is taken to reduce ,| the terrible ‘o men were killed in one of the Tacaeee and most care- fully-ma trie power sta- ee very remark- An operative are engaged in re- pairing a heavy cable, which was, of course, ‘dead’’—that is, no eur- rent. was passing over it; the. cable was, in fact. switch, but it. p an_iron standard, eich? sive supported two avy “‘live’’ THAT ere ‘FLASH, eral practitioner and for the public! His ordinary duties coneist in de-| a! in the Royal as well to bear in mind one impor-| tailing the footmen for duty at the| from them rv inv eae Lie Windsor Castle, I did|,,One,, of, these cables began to © tant and und‘sputed truth, and that | Palace entrances and for daily at-| Were co in many other lo- A a g the document | leak.”” with the. veniie that _the [is the existence of “pseudo. rabies. | tendance in. the ante-rooms ‘of tho| calities; ainong them the city, of Ao" ucceell th 2% Set be diseov. | (lectrie current ran_down rs Leaving aside the question of exist-| personal een of the King| Exeter. The result was the same. ree as z ma e from. the | tandard to the dead cable, which ence of ihe diesease in human be-| and Queen, and i @ morning-| Doctor Gordon declares that the| ere Die oot thon thers | then became alive, with the rowall ings there can be no doubt that rooms of the eaiornies and ladies-| important point to consider in the | Highlands carried with them their | that the operative at work on it r there are many cascs of false in-waiting. The Sergeant Footman| choice of a jaedence for consump- proscribed national costume, an eoived a shock that killed ‘him ie rabies. In other words, it is not|—he is, by the way, addressed by all| tives is the matter of shelter from|landed in the pl 4 In 1803} stant! rare for a person bitten by a dog|mzmbi the Household as ‘Ser-| the rain-bearing winds of the locali-| Lord Selkirk arranged a consider-| He ein Forsng on the floor of ant”’—is usually in attendance at} josure to which is a more|able emigration, mainly from Skye | the. power-house, and oni his touched the dead man, he was in- atantly killed himself by the force of the current, ‘Opeend Ny operatives in electrical works are blinded b; 4 het ir risin , but| Sudden flashing of highly-charged we vn fore Jana . some | cables: If a heavily ‘Joaded’’ cable to. Nova Scotia. Though they had! comes into tact with another fought agains ce El of) Piece cf wire or anything else that “ ts as a conductor, a h takes place as the current jumps from the: yi $ “28 Eg we = instantly blinds any operatives who may be felene to the spot where it takes piace. A few years ago diss SEAT were blinded by the fi ig of a A iE e < 3 g a & $: he | ground, and three were permanent- ly blinded.—London Answers, J oy a